In the hot summer, heat stroke is a very common disease. Heat stroke is a group of clinical syndromes caused by thermoregulation dysfunction caused by high temperature or hot sun exposure, characterized by high fever, dry skin and sweatlessness and central nervous system symptoms, which are generally divided into three types: heat spasm, heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Diabetic patients are more likely to suffer from heat stroke than healthy people, which is related to the insensitivity of sugar friends to changes in the external environment, especially diabetes with a relatively long course of diabetes and have vascular complications, although the patient is in a high temperature environment, but the response is relatively slow, and it is felt when the heat is stored in the body, but it is too late.
Diabetic patients often have lower resistance than healthy people, and are more likely to lose body fluids, once the symptoms of heat stroke, generally more serious than healthy people, may occur muscle spasms, blood pressure reduction, pulse urgency, dizziness and nausea, etc., if the body temperature rises to 40 ° C and above, it may lose consciousness, and even lead to death.
Five tips for diabetics to prevent heat stroke
(1) Drink 2 to 3 L of water per day, and warm boiled water is the most suitable.
Because elderly people with diabetes have reduced sensitivity to temperature sensors in their brains, they often don't feel thirsty even when they need to replenish their bodies. Summer temperature is too high, sugar friends sweat more, every day to add enough water, cold drinks, popsicles, ice cream in addition to containing high sugar content, heat retention is still relatively poor. In contrast, warm boiled water stimulates telangiectasia, prompts sweat gland relaxation, perspiration, heat dissipation, and body temperature drops more easily.
(2) Take a warm bath.
Sugar friends' resistance is often relatively poor, from the high temperature of the outdoor home immediately take a cold shower, a little "too stimulating" for the body, and will make the pores of the whole body quickly close, can not achieve the effect of heat dissipation, but more likely to catch a cold. The warm bath with a suitable temperature (about 38 ° C) can open the pores of the body to achieve the effect of heat relief and heat dissipation, which is conducive to the body's heat exhaustion.
(3) Wear a light-colored cotton sweatshirt.
When the ambient temperature is lower than the skin temperature, the skin can use radiation, conduction and convection to dissipate heat, and when the ambient temperature is higher than the skin temperature, the skin not only can not dissipate heat externally, but will absorb heat, so sugar friends are best not to choose dark heat absorbing clothes, you can choose light color, sweat absorption, breathable cotton clothing, wearing both comfortable and conducive to heat relief.
(4) Drink mung bean soup.
Summer temperature is high, humidity is large, mung beans have the effect of cooling down, detoxifying, moisturizing the throat and quenching thirst, sugar friends who are not too weak can drink appropriately, and mung beans can be boiled for 3 to 5 minutes.
(5) Go out with the Three Treasures.
Sugar friends try not to go out at the peak of the sun at noon to avoid exposure to the hot sun. If you want to go out, you should carry "Water + Sugar Cube + Emergency Contact Card" with you for emergency use.
Sugar friends must be prepared for the heat and spend the hot summer safely and steadily!
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